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Favorinus

2. A follower of Aristotle and the peripatetic school, who is mentioned only by Plutarch (Sympos. 7.10). He is otherwise unknown, but must at all events be distinguished from Favorinus, the friend of Herodes Atticus.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.